Sylvester Stallone on the origin of Apollo Creed’s name. It usually happens that names and places do not just appear from within when writing, we usually pull from all sorts of places from our personal life to figure these things out. Theft is part of it! I love the whole story about the creation of Rocky and what Stallone went through to make it - one of the most inspirational Hollywood origin stories. The budget they had for the first film was around $1 million and it grossed $225 million worl